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I watched only a few moments last night, and listened for a few more. It concerns me the president referenced Reagan and Bush 41 regulations and interpretations of laws* passed in Congress in comparison to his Executive Order that will completely ignore current law. But that’s not all conservatives are rightfully bitching about.

So much for the settled law theory. Since it has not been politically wise to change existing immigration laws during the last decade, the Executive Branch along with support from Democrat-controlled big city mayors, have been quietly telling immigration and border protection line officers to “not be all that concerned” if they run into any illegal aliens during their work-day.

The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) has created a slide show similar to the Obama campaign’s presentation on how important his agenda was to Julia, a single mother if I recall correctly. CIS has applied the same theme to go over the proposed illegal alien amnesty program.

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I’ll be the first one to tell you I have had little or no time to review the current immigration “fix” legislation, but this does not sound good at all. A week ago, journalists started looking into how the Obamacare rules would apply to new immigrants who will have become legalized. It seems employers would have a financial incentive to hire immigrant workers instead of American citizens.

As you know, today, the Supreme Court, by unanimous agreement, found that a key provision of the Arizona immigration law was, indeed, constitutional. The administration was not pleased. This from the Washington Times: Read more

Today, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in Arizona v. United States. By a vote of 8 -0, the Court found that the most controversial provision of the law, as written, did not violate federal law, and thus could stand. Read more

A recent link by a contributor to the blog was made to the far left site, American Progress, about the cost that enforcing immigration laws, i.e. detaining and deporting illegals, is detrimental (“a disaster”) to local, state and national economies.

To wit: American Progress makes ten arguments, each of which either references another left wing blog or a dead link. Go figure. In the newspapers that are referenced (and aren’t dead links), terms like “He had no firsthand knowledge, but….”, followed by outright and unsourced assumptions and opinion, such as “I’d already received emails and messages on Facebook that the state’s immigration law had caused BBVA Compass, which is owned by the Spanish megabank BBVA Group, to cancel plans for an $80 million tower in Birmingham for the bank’s U.S. headquarters”, then in the next paragraph states that “the bank is going to stay in the Daniel Building headquarters and renovate the Harry B. Brock Administrative Center near Highland Golf Course. That was reported in Saturday’s paper. But the reason for the tower cancellation wasn’t made clear.”

So American Progress just makes up a reason, specious as it is? Seriously, why would this bank not only stay in Alabama, and continue to expand, if the immigration law was seen as an affront or impediment? This is what American Progress calls a reputable source. The rest of us call it rumor mongering and yellow journalism. What they don’t mention is that any path to citizenship will be a one way path to the Democrats, hence the liberal support for “motor voter” registration as well as the clearly crooked “same day registration”, topped off by their rabid and nonsensical opposition to positive ID for all voters.

This is not to say that alleged right-of-center newspapers don’t participate in this. The WSJ recently had an article, titled “A CEO’s demand: Fix immigration” on the Chipotle Mexican restaurant chain that was raided by the government and lost a significant number of their workers to scrutiny of their hiring records by ICE. The company claims that they “unintentionally hired some illegal immigrants” due to rapid upscaling in the number of their outlets. Apparently, this “overenthusiastic hiring” caused them to lose half of their 900 employees to ICE raids in Minnesota alone!

Chipotle’s claims that only “about half its workers are hispanics, including many in management roles.” A check of current national unemployment rates for hispanic CITIZENS at the government’s (optimistic) Bureau of Labor Statistics gives you a rate of about 11%. Are these people unwilling to work in such an upstanding, upwardly mobile job? Could it be that they don’t “look hispanic” enough? Or maybe the jobs are not as great as they say? Honestly, with just over 13 million people desperate for work in this country, how logical or reasonable is their claim that they can’t come up with enough legal job candidates, even with their claimed highly selective hiring standards, to fill their job openings without resorting to hiring illegals?

Let’s face it: businesses like the cheap labor, and the Democrats like the cheap votes. In both cases, the welfare of the American citizen is being compromised. Both sides claim that the U.S./state economies can’t survive without this pool of cheap, illegal labor.

I believe the same arguments were once made by former slave states.

Illegals coming here may fill a low end employment niche, particularly ones created with racist/elitist, “I’m too good for that job” attitudes (see Juan Williams to Gingrich a few debates ago). New illegals may be thankful for both being here and having work, but will the naturalized-through-birth children of this generation of illegals settle for working in the fields? I suspect not, particularly if they are conscripted into unions. You can’t keep them down on the farm once they’ve been to Paris! If this is the case, then a new wave of illegals will be required to fill the gap left by the children of the current workers. Ad infinitum.

A continuing boon or another bust? I think you know the answer to that.

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Today, the United States Supreme Court granted the petition filed by the state of Arizona to hear the case concerning the state’s immigration law passed in April, 2010. (See: page 2, case number 11-182 of the link). This was an appeal from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal’s decision finding many of the provisions of Arizona’s law unenforceable. Read more

I’m way behind concerning news of the day since I’ve been busy with the real job and now away on holiday, but I’m going to try to post a bit during the next two weeks and to start off, I’m going to simply highlight Bill Whittle’s What We Believe series with his last three video segments.